Oil demand has been waning in Japan. Oil in Japan is mostly supplied by the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia or Iran, as well as Russia.
Saudi Arabia, officially known as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the world's number one oil exporter and the country with the largest amount of oil reserves.
Adam smith was a philosopher who wrote about capitalism.
b.) The diverse geography of the colonies encouraged different economic pursuits.
The British colonies contained diverse geography from rocky coast line, forests, hot and humid areas, swamp lands, and good soiled farm land.
The diversity of geography created differing economies for the Thirteen Colonies. New England focused on shipbuilding, lumber, fishing, whaling, manufacturing, trade, and small farming. The Middle Colonies were best for farming for food production. These colonies established farms for what, rye, corn, vegetable, and animal farming. The Southern Colonies were the harshest of environments being hot and humid with swampy land. However, the geography proved perfect for tobacco, rice, sugar, and eventually cotton. The Southern Colonies focused on plantation farming of cash crops and would demand large amounts of labor. The need for labor would be filled by a system of slavery.
The twelfth amendment to the constitution was added in 1804 in response to the 1800 presidential election. This amendment was meant to break a tie in the presidential election as was witnessed when Thomas Jefferson, a presidential candidate received the same number of electoral votes as Aaron Burr, the vice presidential candidate.
